I've written before about my life-long fascination with L. Frank Baum's Oz books and their many multimedia spinoffs.
Like most people, I saw the Wicked movie opening weekend and loved it, just like I loved the musical and the books it's based on.
But for my money, the best revisionist Dark Oz of all is the Caliber Comics version. Yes Caliber, home of goth vigilante The Crow and zombie apocalypse road trip DeadWorld, did a take on Dorothy and her pals, and it's grimngritty as all hell.
Image from Romance In Rags, the one where Scraps, The Patchwork Girl Of Oz, tries to win The Scarecrow, currently suffering from a mind control spell by the witch Mombi and working for the evil Nome King, back to the side of the Emerald City freedom fighters.
The series was recently released as a series of trade paperbacks, essential reading for all you My Chemical Romance fans.
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